What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through--that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.

Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.